GoF Ch 21-23 post DH look

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 181981

"Lovely... I don't suppose you like to give an interview, would you? 
Share some of your experience of magical creatures? The Prophet does 
a zoological column every Wednesday, as I'm sure you know. We could 
feature these - er- Bang-Ended Scoots" - p.370.


Alla:

Am impressed, Rita is actually good at some parts of her job. How 
nicely she lures Hagrid in. Unethical lady, IMO, but skilled.


"Hermione's words about Krum kept coming back to him. "They only like 
him because he's famous!" Harry doubted it very much if any of the 
girls who had asked to be his partner so far would have wanted to go 
to the ball with him if he hadn't been a school champion. Then he 
wondered if this would bother him if Cho asked him" - p.389.


Alla:


Not that I dislike Harry being honest with himself here, quite the 
contrary, but I now wonder if he let Hermione's words get to him too 
much. I mean, is it really true that nobody would have asked him had 
he not been one of the champions? But I guess Harry experienced 
enough school turning on him to feel sceptical.


"Staring nastily around at them all, he informed them that he would 
be testing them on poison antidotes during the last lesson of the 
term.
"Evil, he is," Ron said bitterly that night in the Gryffindor common 
room. "Springing a test on us the last day. Ruining the last bit of 
term with a whole load of studying" - p.392


Alla:

Heee, now with the closed canon I have two sided reaction while 
reading this quote.

Nothing in the last book made me change my mind that Snape would 
indeed enjoy poisoning Neville's toad with antidote or without it, 
nothing made me change my mind that he would indeed enjoy seeing 
students swallowing poisons and being scared whether they will 
survive it.

BUT of course now I know that Snape will not actually kill the 
students, just do mental torture on them ( in my opinion of course), 
so that remark of Ron about ruining the last day of term with 
studying makes me laugh.

Because if I close my eyes and imagine that Ron is talking about any 
other teacher, well I think we all encountered such "evillness" LOLOL.


"He found it hard to concentrate on Snape's Potions test, and 
consequently forgot to add the key ingredient - bezoar - meaning that 
he received bottom marks" - p.396.

Alla:

Oh, look bezoar :-)  Nice long term memory Harry, hehe.


"He- er- just asked Fleur Delacour to go to the ball with him," said 
Ginny. She looked as though she was fighting back a smile, but she 
kept patting Ron's arm sympathetically.

***********

"I asked her to go with me just now, Harry said dully," and she told 
me.
Ginny suddenly stopped smiling" - p.398-399


Alla:

I know I said it before, but every time I see new hint, I am just 
getting more and more convinced - no, to me there is no "new Ginny" 
anymore in book 5 and 6, I am very happy with foreshadowing of that 
Ginny through the books now.